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This book is a necessary intervention into the debates over Humanism, an incisively-written guide to the ongoing importance of a philosophical perspective that has, for too long, been assumed to be a relic of the past. As Schulenberg reminds us (with apologies to Faulkner), that past is not past, and never has been. Professor Michael Bryson, California State University, Northridge Humanism is a contested word in the contemporary world in the same way as humanity is an endangered species. But the former (on a par with all kinds of anti-, post- or transhumanisms) is just one of many self-interpretations of the latter. There have been many humanists in history, even failed ones. The author of this book is a pragmatist humanist. He advocates this conception with rigour and meticulousness, but also with the focus on key points. His work deserves to be read, so that it can inspire us to rethink humanism in this creative, poetic and pragmatist way. Tolle lege! Professor Emil Visnovsky, Comenius University, Bratislava

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Ulf Schulenberg teaches American studies at the University of Bremen, Germany. He is the author of Zwischen Realismus und Avantgarde (2000), Lovers and Knowers (2007), Romanticism and Pragmatism (2015), and Marxism, Pragmatism, and Postmetaphysics (2019). He has published widely in literary and cultural theory, aesthetics, and American and European intellectual history.

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